Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-09-16

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goes forth on gospel work into the haunts Of
iniquity, carrying the iiihes dIid bread. Cod
with the red right arm of his wrath onfnipo
tent, would tear TO pices any one who should
offer indignity. He sould srnite him with
lightnings, and drowI him with floods, and
swallow him with e. thqunkes. and damn
him with eternal ind gnations Sons one
said: II dislike vsra much to see that
Christian woman teat ing those bad boys
in the mission school ! am afraid TO
have her instruct them $50 said
another man, Il am dfraid, too.n Said the
first; 81 am afraid they will use vile language
before they leave the place. "Ah,n SAID the
other man, II am not afraid of that. What
1 am afraid of is the if any OF those boys
should use Il bad word in that presence the
other boys would tear Him to pieces and kill
him on the spot.n That woman is best shell
tered who is sheltered by the Lord God All.
mighty, and you need never fear going any
where where God tells you to 90.
1t seems as if the Lord had ordained woman
for AN especial work, in the solicitation of
charities Backed up by barrels in which
there is no flour, and by stoves in WHICH
there is no fire. and by wardrobes in which
there are no clothes, woman is Irresistible;
passing on her errand, God says to her: You
90 into that bank, or store, or shop and get
the money" She goes in and gets it, The
man is hard fsted but she gets it. She
could not help but get 1t. 1t is decreed from
eternity she should get it. No need of your
turning your back and pretending You don't
hear; you do hear Theirs is no need of your
saying you are begged to death There is
no need Of your wasting your time,
and you might as well submit first
as last. You had better right away
take down your check book, mark the
number of the check; fill up the blank sign
your name and hand it to her. There is no
need of wasting time. Those poor children
ti,,I Ioo
enough. That sick man must have some
farina. That consumptive must have some
thing to ease his cough. Inject this delegate
Of relief society coming out of the store Of
such hard listed man, and l say: "Did you
get the money! "Of course, she says, 81
got the money; that's what l went for The
Lord told me to go in and get It, and he never
sends me on FOOLS errand."
Again, | have to tell you that it is a
womans specific right to comfort under the
stress of dire disaster. She is called the
weaker vessel, but all profane rs well as
sacred history attestS that when the crisis
comes she is better prepared than man to
meet the emergency. How often you have
seen a woman who seemed to be a disciple Of
frivolity and Incidence, who, under one stroke
of calamity, changed to heroine. Oh, what
a great mistake those business men make
who never tell their business troubles to their
wives! There comes some great loss to their
store, or some of their companions in bust
ness play them q sad trick, and they carry
the burden all alone He is asked in the house
hold again and again: What is the matter!
but he believes it sort Of Christian duty
to keep all that trouble within his own
soul On, your first duty was to tell
your wife all about it, She perhaps might
not have dsentangled your finances o" ex-
tended your credit but she would have
helped you to bear misfortune, You have no
right to carry on one shoulder that which is
intended for two There are business men
here who know what | mean. There came
crisis In your affairs. You struggled
brave'y and long but after while there
came day when you said: "Here | shall
have to stop" and you called in your part
ners, and yon called in the most prominent
men in your employ, and you said "We havc
got to stop" You left the store suddenly.
You conll hardly make up your mind to pass
through the street and over on the ferryboat.
You felt everybody would be looking at you
and blaming you and denouncing you. You
FASTENED home You told your wife all about
the affair What did she say2 Did she play
the butterfly? Did she talk about the silks and
the ribbons and the fashions? No. She came
up to the emergency. She quailed not under
the stroke She helped you to begin to plan
right away She offered to go out of the
comfortable house into smaller one, and
wear the old cloak another winter. She was
one who understood your affairs without
blaming you. YoI looked upon what you
thought was n thin, weak woman's arm hold
ing you up, but while you looked at that arm
there came into the feeble muscles of it the
strength OF the eternal God. No Gliding.
No frettng. No telling you about tho beall-
tiful house Of her father, from which you
brought her ten, twenty, or thirty years ago.
You said: "Well, this is the happiest day of
my life. am glad have gotten from under
my burden Ny wife don't care-I don't
care" AT the moment you were utterly ex.
hansted, God sent a Deborah to meet
the host of the AmaleIites and scatter them
like chaif over the plain. There are some
times women who sit reading sentimental
novels, and who wish that they had some
grand field in which to display their Chris
tan powers Oh, what grand and glorious
things they could do if they only had an op-
purtunity! My sister, you noed not wait for
any such time A crisis will come in your
affairs. There will be O ThermopylB in
your own household, where God will tell you
to stand There are scores and hundreds OF
households to-day where rs much bravery and
courage are demanded of woman as was OK
hibited by Grace Darling, OF Marie Antoi-
uette, or Joan Of Arc
Again | remark, it is woman's right 10
bring to us the kingdom OF heaven. 1t is
easier for woman to be Christian than for
a man. Why2 You say she is weaker No
Her heart is more responsive to the pleadings
Of divine love. She is in vast ma aiority. The
fact that she can more easily become Chris
tian, prove by the statement that three
fonrths of the members of the churches in all
Christendom are women So God appoints
them to be the chief agencies for bringing
this world back to God | may stand
here and say the soul is immortal There isa
man who will refute it. | may stand here
and say we arc lost and undone without
Christ There is man who will refute it.
may stand here and say there will be Judg-
ment Day after while. Yonder is some one
who will refute it. But Christian woman
faith and the consistency of Christ's
Gospel-nobody can refute that. The
| greatest sermons are not preached on cele
brated platforms; they are preached with an
audience of two or three and in private home
life. A consistent, consecrated Christian
service is an unanswerable demonstration OF
Gods truth. A sailor came slipping down
the ratlines one night, az though something
had happened and the sailors cried: "What:
the matter2n He said: "Mv mothers Drl yerG
haunt me live . ghost" Home influences,
consecrated Christian home influences, are
the mightiest OF all influences upon the soul.
There are men here to-day who have main.
tanned their integrity not because they wers
any better naturally than some other people,
but because there were home influences pray
ing for them all the time. They got good
start. They were launched on the world
with the benedctions of Christian mother.
They may track Siberian SHOWS, they may
plunge in African jungles, they may fly to
the earthS end-they cannot go so far and so
fast but the prayers will keep up with them
stand before women to-day who have the
eternal salvation Of their husbands in their
right hand. On the marriage day you took
nm oath before men and angels that you
would be faithful and kind until death did
! you part, and believe YOU are going to keep
that oath; but after that parting at the door
Is there any such thing as an immortal mar
riage, making the flowers that grow on the
top of the sepulcher brighter than the gar
lands which at the marriage banquet foo led
the air with aroma9 Yes; stand here as a